Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing by Alona Pardo, David Campany, Drew Heath Johnson & Abigail Solomon-Godeau

4to. pp. 288. profusely illustrated. boards. Munich: Prestel, 2018.

New in publishers shrink wrap.

Published in conjunction with a travelling exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery, London; Jeu de Paume, Paris & Oakland Museum of Art, California

ISBN-10: 379135776X / ISBN-13: 9783791357768

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Dorothea Lange was one of the most important photographers of the twentieth century. A pioneering social documentarian, she was a prominent advocate of the power of photography to effect change, using her camera as a political tool to expose what she saw as society's cruel injustices and inequalities.
Featuring over two hundred images, this publication brings together the most significant bodies of work she created throughout her life, from early portraiture and social realist work made during the Great Depression in the 1930s, to photographs of the internment of Japanese American citizens during the Second World War and the changing physical and social landscape of her beloved West Coast in the 1940s and '50s.
With newly commissioned essays by David Campany, Drew Heath Johnson & Abigail Solomon-Godeau, as well as an extensive illustrated chronology and rare archival material, much of which is reproduced for the first time, this book provides a comprehensive overview of Lange's life and work.